A defence of Mick Hennessy

You just said you believe what Froch says. Why not just judge for yourself?

 

I did.

Remember the days before the s6 and during the s6 when Froch had to do his own promotion work, spouting off rubbish every other day to raise his profile, because he had a **** promoter. One of the most exciting fighters in the world couldn't get a home fight , or a TV deal for years. He wasn't making money and wasn't selling big crowds. In the meantime, lesser British fighters were raking it in. It was a disgrace.

Froch stayed loyal to him for much too long. Gave him the benefit of the doubt for much too long too. Payed dearly in the end it seems too.

Just imagine how big Froch would have been with Frank.

 

We'll just have to agree to disagree. Anyone who get's their fighters on Terrestrial Tele these days is doing a good job in my eyes. And TBH, Froch is always sprotuing off rubbish towards his opponent. And Froch did sell out the FM arena with Hennessy, the same arena used for the Bute/Froch fight.

 

They did not have the rights to screen the undercard fights as per the contract with Screensport.

 

I'd say another man who needs congratulating for Mick's success is Dereck Chisora. If he hadn't turned up in such poor shape to fight Fury the Five deal would have folded pretty quickly.

 

Didn't Michael Watson fight Errol Christie chief support on screensport.

 

I like Hennessy he is a good promoter and he has done very well to survive the loss of TV and some big fighters in recent years, I hope he is a long term fixture at channel five, as I always enjoyed his shows on ITV

 

so my point is....

 

He definately has the funniest post fight interviews!

 

How can people say he almost ruined carl froch when he got him a fight in his home town against pascal for the wbc strap & got him in the super six.

 

I have said it before: Mick made Carl Froch.

 

The Taylor fight was was streamed online for a tenner. I payed for it. What difference would being screened live at 2am have made to Froch's profile? The fight was replayed twice by ITV on the Sunday night. On ITV 4 at about 8pm and then on ITV 1 at about 11am. So it got plenty of publicity to be fair.

If the fight was in the UK it would have been screened live at 10pm. But then Froch would not have the credit for fighting in Taylor's backyard. Froch now has huge exposure, with his warrior reputation secure.

 

He made Froch, got him to where he was, then had problems, a lot of which were down to recession/no TV deal etc (heard he had personal issues too)

But since then he's come back again not folded cap in hand like others - at the end of the day Micks shows are the only british boxing shows being watched by above 1 million people at this moment in time.

And atleast he made his way to where he is and has had to be a shrewd businessman and work hard and graft to get to where he is (then get back again), instead of inheriting Daddy's money and buying any news friends he can.

 

Carl also didn't do his bit at times, wasn't the most open to the press stuff at apprantley..

 

How much of that is down to him though?

Tyson Fury is his star boxer but the only fight of his which has been well promoted was the Chisora bout. All the others have gone completely under the radar and if you look through past threads, you'll see proper boxing fans who are on sites like ESB every day not knowing when Fury is fighting next. I include myself in that too - I had no idea when Fury was fighting Maddalone, despite being on boxing sites every single day.

If Frank or Hearn had the Channel 5 contract, they'd make their fighters into stars. Hennessy hasn't, which is why the last Fury fight was in a ****ing barn in Somerset which nobody has ever heard of. He has millions of viewers yet he can't sell out a decent sized arena. What does that tell you about his promotional ability? He can't sell tickets because nobody is ever aware that Fury is fighting until they flick through the TV channels when some Ant and Dec program goes to the adverts.

This is why I don't give Hennessy credit for what he's done. He's so inept at certain things that it makes me think he was extremely lucky and simply stumbled across a TV deal. It's a golden deal and yet Hennessy is still not making the most of it.